to be the fight surroundingthedebtceiling. therepublicans want to use that as an opportunity to make deeper cuts to entitlement programs. part of the president's outreach this week to republicans has been to remind them he's put on the table as part of a bigger deal about $400 billion to cuts in medicare and medicaid as well as about $130 billion in chain cpi, which would be, you know, a shift in the way we calculate some federal benefits. soy think that the contours of a deal will come if it does come at all around the debt ceiling fight and the months leading up to that. >> nancy, good to see you. thanks very much. nancy cook, economic fiscal policy correspondent, "national journal," annie lowery, economic policy reporter at "the new york times." paul ryan calls his budget the path to prosperity. mitt romney hope ld it would be the path to the presidency. that didn't work out. but ryan will not be deterred. >> i am proud of our budget because it's changed the conversation. today we are not talking about cliffs or ceilings or sequesters. we're talking about solutions. and that's how it sho